Spread-hook.



W. CLAYTON. SPREAD HOOK. AYPLIUATION FILED 0013.19, 1910.

Patented Feb. 28, 1911 S e S S e n H w Attorneys vide a device of this character in which the UNITED STATES PATENT orrron.

Specification of Letters Patent- Patented Feb, 28, 1911,

985,659. 4 Application filed October 19, 1910. Serial No. 587,934.

To all whom it may concern: Be it known that I, WALTER CLAYTON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bel- I ea-ted between the bridges 7 and 8, and uniting the sidev plates 2, is an auxiliary pintle 10. The trapping member is denoted generof New Jersey, have invented anew and -'useful Spread-Hook, of which the following is a specification. b

It is the object of this invention to prothe auxiliary plntle 10. Beyond the eye 12 vide a spread hook for fishing purposes, so I the constituent -material of the trapping constructed that a slidable, compressible l member is fashioned into arms 14. The trapping member may be heldunder tension, arms 14 are bent outwardly as at 15 to form to be disengaged for expansion when seized I sl'loul ders, the extremities of these shoulder b th -fi thergame f orming portions 15 being looped'to form other object of the invention is to prolingers 16, located relatively near to the longer axis of the body 1, and extending toward the bridge 3, when, as shown in Fig.

resilient trapping arms may readily be set 2, the clamping member is in set position.

manually. I Another object of the invention 18 to provide -a-.-ho'ok of the sort above mentioned whichwill be readily sprung by the fish or other game, the hook, however, being anlikely to be sprung accidentallyl With the above and other objects in view, the invention consists in thenovel construe ping arms. These portions 17 of the trapping arms protrude beyond the end of the body 1, and terminate in oppositely extended hooks '18 which may or may not be 5 tion and arrangement of parts to be herein 1 barbed.

after more particularly described, illustrated Presupposing that the device is in the poin the drawings, and set forth in the apsition indicated in dotted line in Fig. 2, the pended claims. 7 operation of the same as follows. The In the drawings, Figure 1 shows the infingers of the operator are engaged against vention in.perspective, the same being in set the shoulders 15, compressing the resilient position; Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section trapping arms until the arms bear against showing the trapping arms in set position, the bridges 3 and 4'. These bridges 3 and 4 in solid line, the trapping arms being shown 'in sprung position, in dotted line; Fig. 3 is a transversesection upon the-line AB of Fig. 2; Fig. 4 is a side elevation showing a modification of the invention; Fig. 5 is a perspective showing a detail enlarged from Fig. 4; Fig. 6 is an edge elevation o f the ody portion of the device shown in Fig. 4, parts being broken away.

In carrying out the invention there is provided, as a primary and fundamental element, a body 1.- This body 1 is spindle-shaped in general outline, and includes oppositely positioned side plates, connected in their intermediate portions by a bridge 3, the side plates 2 being connected adjacent their ends, by other bridges 4 and 7. The plates 2, be-

when the trapping member, as a whole, is slid in the direction of the bridge 7, the fingers 16 willride over the rollers (i and engage between the spindles 5, as is clearly seen in Fig. 2. The device is now in setposition. It is to be noted that when the device is in the set position shown in Fig. 2, the shoulders 15 and the hooks 18 are the only portions of the trapping member which protrude beyond the contour of the body 1'.

dentally springing the trapping member is reduced to a minimum. It is of course obvious that the outstanding shoulders 15 permit theirapping member to be placed in the set position shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings, tween the bridges 3 and 4 are united by the major portion of the trappin member spaced spindles 5 upon which rollers 6 or being housed within the contour 0 .other antifrictional elements are journaled 1. It is of course to be understood that the for rotation. To one r (l of the body 1 a bridges 3 and L are somewhat narrower swivel 8 may be secured. by means of a pin than-the sideplates 2, so that the spring 9 or other device adapted to that end. Lotrapping arms will readily be housed within mar, in the county of Monmouth and State I ally by the numeral 11 in Fig. 1. This trapof the trap thus serve to position the fingers 16 so that By this construction, the liability of accii thejcontonr of the side plates 2,- as hereinbefore specified. When the fish for other game seizes the hooks 18, the trapping member willbe slid longitudinally 'of the body 1, the eye 12 in the trapping member permitting. the necessary relative movement between the trapping member and the body. The sliding movement of the trapping member will 'withdraw the fingers from between the pintl-es' 5, and when the spring arms are thus released,-the arins will fiy outwardly, from the solid line positionnof Fig. 2 to the dotted line position of said figure.

In Figs. 4', 5 and 6, a modification of the invention is shown. The body portion of the device delineated in Figs. 4:, 5 and G is preferably fashioned from a single rod of metal, looped on itself as at 19, this looped portion 19 being bent into a book 20. One portion 21 of the body is bent about the other portion 22 thereof, as shown at 23. v The portion 21 is carried upwardly and passed about the portion 23 as shown at 24.

The upper extremity of the portion 21 is 'wound about the portion 22 as shown at 25.

Upon the upper end of the portion 22 an eye 26 is mounted for rotary movement. The trapping member in this' form of the invention is preferably a one-piece structure, bent upon itself in its intermediate portion to form an eye 27 which is slidably engaged with the portion 24: of thc'hody. Beyond this eye 27 the trappingmember branches into resilient arms 28, looped upon themselves intermediate their cnds as shown at 29, the looped portions 29 being bentinto hooks 30,. the constituent material of the trapping member. below the books 30 being carried downwardly as at 31, and inwardly as at 32. the extremities of the arms diver ing as at 33 and terminating in hooks 34.

The operation of the device shown in Figs. 4, 5 and 6, does not differ greatly from the operation of the device shown in Figs. 1. 2 and 3. It, may be said, however. the arms 28 may be pressed toward each-other, until the looped portions 29 are in close proximity.

whereupon, referring particularly to Fig. 4, the body portion of thedevice may be slid downwardly until' the elements 29 of the spring arms of the trapping member are engaged in the'looped portion 19. The: spring arms of the trapping member will thus be held under tension, and when. the books 34 are engaged by the fish, relative ll'lOVPYYlGlli) will he produced between the body and the prising a body trapping member, thereby freeing the portions 29 of the trapping member from the portion 19 of the body and permitting the hooks 3st to fly apart in opposite directions.

-Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is:

1. A device of the class described comprising a, body including spaced side plates and spaced bridges connecting the -plates;'a trapping member slidable in the body and including resilient arms; the arm's-and the body having interlocking elements located I between the bridges and constituting a means for holding-the arms under tension;

the bridges receiving the arms when the arms are compressed and slid, to position the interlocking elements for engagement with each other.

A device of thc class described comincluding spacedside plates, spaced bridges connecting the side plates, and pintles connecting the side plates between the bridges; a trappingmemher slid able in the body and including resilient arms provided. with fingers tovengage the pintles to hold the arms under tension; the bridges receiving the arms when the trapping memher is compressed and slid, to guide the fingers into engagement with the plntles.

A device of the class described ccmprising a body including spaced-side plates,

bridges connecting the plates. spaced pintles connecting the plates and located between the bridges. and an auxiliary pmtle connect ing the plates and located beyond one member formed with l'n testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own. I have hereto aflixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

VA LTER GLAYTON. Witnesses:

J. H. Mo1i'ro1\f Nun. ll. MILLER. 

